This is the capstone project for the Ruby module in Microverse 2.0 program
- Ruby
- Get weather forecast given the user's GPS location
- Get weather forecast for any given city within OpenWeather's API (>200.000 cities)
- Search function to retrieve up to 10 cities matching the search criteria. (if more than 20 results are given, user will be asked to narrow the search criteria)
- Echo function to test if the bot is active
- Log file to save user, location required and time
- Telegram application installed in your cellphone or in your computer
- Available internet connection
- Join Weather Bot channel or
- create a new bot sending a message to @BotFather and follow further instructions to create the bot and get the token
- Get an API key from OpenWeatherMap to access their forecasts Instructions here
Note to TSEs: both Telegram and OW API key will be provided in Code Request
- Permission for accessing GPS from within the app
- Follow instructions
- For TSEs: please fill in Telegram Token and API key in
tokens.rbclass - Clone the repository
- Get into the repository's root folder
- Run
bundle installto install the needed gems - Execute the
./bin/main.rbfile to start the bot (the tokens needed will be given in private)
- Once the bot has been started, you may test it via the Telegram Bot's Channel.
Available commands
/startto start the bot/stopto stop the bot/echoto test if the bot is active/weatherto let the bot know the user will require a forecast/mylocationto let the bot know the user will require a forecast based on GPS current location
(All commands are clickable from within the Telegram app)
- GitHub: @MiguelArgentina
- twitter - https://twitter.com/Qete_arg
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page.
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This project is MIT licensed.